CHLIDANOTINI, CHLIDANOTINAE, TORTRICIDAE, TORTRICOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has a complex brown and yellow pattern on the forewings, with wide white area along costa. Each forewing has an indentation on the margin near the wingtip. The hindwings are plain brown, darkening at the wingtips. The wingspan is about 2 cms.
The species occurs in Australia in:
Ian F.B. Common,
A revision of the Australian Tortricini, Schoenotenini, and Chlidanotini (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Tortricinae),
Australian Journal of Zoology,
Volume 13 (1965) p. 716.
caterpillar | butterflies | Lepidoptera | moths | caterpillar |
(written 24 March 2019)